Matthew Poole Commentary - Hosea 2:8 - 2:8

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Hosea 2:8 - 2:8


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For; this unexampled ignorance, or inconsiderateness, was the cause of all this lost labour, and unthankfulness to God.



She, in her rayons and prosperity, as were the days of Jeroboam, in which much of this lewdness was committed, and in which the prophet calls them to repentance,



did not know; considered not, but carried it toward God as if indeed she did not know; nor did she own it or acknowledge it by any suitable obedience and thankfulness to the God of her mercies.



That I gave, without desert or worthiness; it was mercy, and this free, from whence all she had came.



Corn; which is the stay and strength of our life; one necessary corn fort put for all the rest.



Wine and oil: these cheer the heart, and include all provision for delight and sweetness.



And multiplied her silver and gold: the treasures of gold and silver, and all precious things brought in by trade, and increased among them, were the effect of mine undiscerned and unacknowledged bounty and goodness.



Which they, the generality or body of the Jews, these idolatrous Jews,



prepared for Baal; first made the idol with the gold and silver, and next dedicated it to the service of the idol. Sottish ignorance, that with one part of the gold and silver make a god, with the other part provide for sacrifices to be offered to it. Thus one part is advanced to be a deity, the other part of the same mass consecrated to the service of its fellow lump. What absurdities will not down with such fools and sots?